Speaker 1: From the Skying Center. This is Paul Murray Live. Come
Speaker 1: on into the man Cave, All Killer, no Feller, superstars,
Speaker 1: wherever you look tonight on the Show of No Sooks
Speaker 1: and No Lefties. The Great Pauline Hanson will be here.
Speaker 1: She's got plenty of huge ideas ahead of the next election,
Speaker 1: and I think plenty of them you need to hear
Speaker 1: from the great Lady herself. Speaking of great people. Nigel Farage,
Speaker 1: the man who is turning UK politics on its head.
Speaker 1: The polls say he is on track to being the
Speaker 1: next Prime Minister of the UK. We'll have a chapter
Speaker 1: Nigel a little bit later, but first let's deal with
Speaker 1: the most important stuff in the most important country in
Speaker 1: the world ours. Now we know the Prime Minister has
Speaker 1: got the craky pants on at the moment. Why because,
Speaker 1: as they used to say about Donald Trump, and the
Speaker 1: walls are closing in every day. The bookies, the polls,
Speaker 1: they all tell the same story. The bloke who planned
Speaker 1: to rule for a generation may just may be out
Speaker 1: of a job in a few weeks time. Now my
Speaker 1: prediction is a minority labor government. But you can't deny
Speaker 1: what is going on. Fast moving poles that get worse
Speaker 1: for the Prime Minister and the Labor Party as every
Speaker 1: poll comes out. There's not a week that doesn't go
Speaker 1: by without some example of the Labor Party falling below
Speaker 1: fifty percent in two party preferred, And once you start
Speaker 1: to dig into the detail, the data is even worse.
Speaker 1: I'm not breaking any news to you there, it's just
Speaker 1: the reality of where we start the conversation this evening.
Speaker 1: In fact, the latest poll out from the Morgan organization,
Speaker 1: and I must say the poles do bounce around a bit,
Speaker 1: but tonight it's fifty one and a half to forty
Speaker 1: eight and a half. But of course the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: knows that he has got many people on his side,
Speaker 1: who of course are completely independent but well of course
Speaker 1: in this campaign not just give him the benefit of
Speaker 1: the doubt, but run as hard as they possibly can
Speaker 1: against any idea of a change in government. That being
Speaker 1: of course many inside the camp galery, not all, but many,
Speaker 1: And you have seen that when the polls were terrible
Speaker 1: after the Voice in twenty twenty three, they were more
Speaker 1: than happy to run the stories that the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: was looking for a reset over summer and things will
Speaker 1: be better in twenty and twenty four. We know that
Speaker 1: the media more than happy to repeat ludicrous claims from
Speaker 1: the Prime Minister that the worst is behind us, that
Speaker 1: magically everything that has cost how much over the past
Speaker 1: three years is all just melting away. Or of course
Speaker 1: they are covering like a full election campaign, the dummy
Speaker 1: election campaign from this Prime minister, one where there's not
Speaker 1: a joint. He doesn't stop at that. He wants to
Speaker 1: fire the cash cannon out by the way, it's your
Speaker 1: cash of course.
Speaker 2: Today we're announcing an equity injection of three billion dollars
Speaker 2: into the NBN, a seven point two billion dollar announcement
Speaker 2: today to assist with the Bruce Highway, a really important
Speaker 2: announcement that will bring up this wonderful city. Today we
Speaker 2: had the significant announcement of two hundred million dollars in
Speaker 2: housing and community infrastructure for regional wa.
Speaker 1: And on and on and on and on. Every day,
Speaker 1: some new announcement as if it was the election campaign,
Speaker 1: the media covering it as if it is the election campaign,
Speaker 1: but never actually grabbing the calculator to double check what
Speaker 1: the spendometer is at currently for Anthony Albanese in the
Speaker 1: Labor Party, since January the first just this year. We're
Speaker 1: not even two weeks into February. Sixteen billion dollars has
Speaker 1: been promised by this bloke. Sixteen billion of your dollars
Speaker 1: on top of the record spending, on top of the
Speaker 1: record spending, ahead of budget deficits for the next forty years. Well,
Speaker 1: just like the reset after the voice, just like the
Speaker 1: voice itself, and just like the faux election campaign, the
Speaker 1: money has not moved the needle. The latest polling again
Speaker 1: as sure as tonight, or if you roll back to
Speaker 1: other organizations with more stable numbers, it shows things rolling
Speaker 1: Dutton's way and against alban Easy, week after week, day
Speaker 1: after day. So those that are the Pratorian Guard, the
Speaker 1: chief guards of the Canberra bubble, they are rather focused
Speaker 1: on a bit of news that they believe will save
Speaker 1: the backside of the prime minister that they prefer. You
Speaker 1: will have heard this many many times, but he is
Speaker 1: an example of what they think will be Elbow's best
Speaker 1: last chance to reverse his terrible standing.
Speaker 3: The other and Easy government will be sweating on an
Speaker 3: interest rate cut and will be excited that the inflation
Speaker 3: figures today open the door for that to be a
Speaker 3: real possibility. When the Reserve Bank meets next month or
Speaker 3: in April.
Speaker 4: The government wants a reterest rate cut before they call
Speaker 4: an election, or at some stage during the election campaign.
Speaker 4: That would be the ultimate sign in their eyes to
Speaker 4: Australian voters that the economic fight against the inflation dragon,
Speaker 4: as Jim Chalmers used to call it, has at least
Speaker 4: been if not one, then certainly it is winning.
Speaker 1: So decision will be made about this time next week
Speaker 1: by the Reserve Bank about whether they are going to
Speaker 1: cut those rates or not. Now, depending on where you look,
Speaker 1: the predictions are anywhere between ninety and ninety nine percent
Speaker 1: that they're going to cut because other reserve banks or
Speaker 1: central banks around the world have started to do so.
Speaker 1: But I've got a little feeling that this is not
Speaker 1: going to be the silver bullet that many in the
Speaker 1: media who always give the benefit of the doubt to
Speaker 1: the government because they like the arrangements they have with
Speaker 1: the side of politics, they prefer that it is not
Speaker 1: going to be the silver bullet solution to all problems
Speaker 1: albow because according to those who have done the numbers,
Speaker 1: if there was an interest rate cut of a quarter
Speaker 1: of a percent, which generally speaking, it goes up by
Speaker 1: a quarter of a percent. It comes down by order
Speaker 1: of a percent. It would save you a grand total
Speaker 1: of ninety two dollars a month. If you've got a
Speaker 1: six hundred thousand dollars loane one hundred and fifteen dollars,
Speaker 1: it's seven hundred and fifty thousand, or th're a million
Speaker 1: bucks one hundred and fifty four dollars a month, not
Speaker 1: a week a month. Now, of course, would you prefer
Speaker 1: that money not to be going on your repayment? Sure,
Speaker 1: but does anyone not believe that your power bill, the
Speaker 1: cost of patrol, the cost of insurance, or anything else
Speaker 1: is not equally gobbled up by that small amount of money. Instead,
Speaker 1: it's just a big headline number that they will be
Speaker 1: able to try to tell you that everything is better.
Speaker 1: But remember what the reality is here. And then there's
Speaker 1: some fan fiction on top of all of this. So
Speaker 1: invested are parts of the Australian media that the Reserve
Speaker 1: Bank holds the key to the future the Albanese government,
Speaker 1: and it must turn that key, sir, turn that key, sir,
Speaker 1: in order to give the relief to the government for
Speaker 1: it to get the clear air to get its rightful
Speaker 1: place as a re elected government. This today popped up
Speaker 1: on taxpayer media where they start fan fictioning about what
Speaker 1: the costs are. Now, yes, they had the examples of
Speaker 1: a one month reduction, but then they just start pretending
Speaker 1: that there'll be multiple rate cuts. In fact, further into
Speaker 1: straight cuts could lead to more savings. For example, Kansta
Speaker 1: says two rate cuts would see monthly repayments fall by
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty nine dollars per month on a
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars loan, And if there
Speaker 1: were four rate cuts this year, a borrower with a
Speaker 1: million dollar loan would save five hundred and ninety nine
Speaker 1: dollars a month. Now, I hope that there are four
Speaker 1: rate cuts this year, but there are currently duck egg
Speaker 1: maybe probably one, but the idea that one automatically leads
Speaker 1: to another automatically leads to another. But this government rigged
Speaker 1: the way that the Reserve Bank is making its decisions.
Speaker 1: Rather than meeting on the first Tuesday of every month,
Speaker 1: it's kind of every six weeks, a little bit longer here,
Speaker 1: a little bit less there. So the decisions that they
Speaker 1: make will either be lots of dramatic changes because they
Speaker 1: are meeting at fewer times, or small changes, wait then
Speaker 1: another change that is most likely to be the case
Speaker 1: of the course of the Reserve Bank governor. But watch
Speaker 1: this space and watch the media tell you that everything
Speaker 1: that this government has made worse over the past three
Speaker 1: years will magically be forgiven if you can save ninety two,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen or one hundred and fifty four
Speaker 1: thousand dollars off the repayment of your mortgage in the
Speaker 1: month of a federal election. And while of course it
Speaker 1: is the decision making of the Prime Minister as to
Speaker 1: when the election will be, can I give you a
Speaker 1: little hint as to the theories around the date? And
Speaker 1: it's no seat great political insight from decades of walking
Speaker 1: the corridors of power. It's available on the Reserve Bank's website.
Speaker 1: The Reserve Bank will be meeting on the seventeenth and
Speaker 1: eighteenth of February. Their next meeting will be, as I said,
Speaker 1: about six weeks after that, thirty first of March and
Speaker 1: first of April. The suggestions of the election timing is
Speaker 1: that it could be the first weekend in April, or
Speaker 1: maybe the second weekend in April. That would mean that
Speaker 1: they don't have to deliver a federal budget. That second number,
Speaker 1: if the press gallery dreams are right, would be a
Speaker 1: reduction in the repayments on interest rates and your home
Speaker 1: loan in the week of an election. But don't forget
Speaker 1: half of the country votes early, so the half of
Speaker 1: the country will not see what may or may not
Speaker 1: happen from the Reserve Bank. But this is why I
Speaker 1: do do not believe for a second that despite what
Speaker 1: the media will tell you, because the media told you
Speaker 1: the voice was going to happen, the media told you
Speaker 1: that this bloke was going to reset, the media told
Speaker 1: you that the two little too late tax cuts would
Speaker 1: completely reverse the government's standings. In every occasion, it has
Speaker 1: got worse because your financial scenario has gotten worse. And
Speaker 1: while I hope, desperately hope as a person trying to
Speaker 1: pay off a house that interest rates fall as fast
Speaker 1: as humanly possible, but the reality of the pain that
Speaker 1: a third of the country that is trying to pay
Speaker 1: off its house in fact more than because they might
Speaker 1: be trying to pay off an investment property as well,
Speaker 1: is that, according to find it dot Com, that are
Speaker 1: you doing the work for the West Australian newspaper For
Speaker 1: every four hundred thousand dollars you borrow, you have had
Speaker 1: to pay an extra fourteen nine hundred and forty dollars
Speaker 1: since this government came to power. So if anyone in
Speaker 1: labor Land or media land thinks that one interest rate drop,
Speaker 1: that best case scenario for people on a million dollar
Speaker 1: mortgage is one hundred and fifty four dollars saving that
Speaker 1: you'll magically forget the almost three times that number because,
Speaker 1: as I said, I previously showed you that number and
Speaker 1: it was the calculation on five hundred thousand. No I
Speaker 1: double checked it's calculation on four hundred thousand, So put
Speaker 1: it up again. Do the maths. Now, the average home
Speaker 1: loan in Australia is a little lower than the home
Speaker 1: loan if you are trying to pay off for property
Speaker 1: in Cidney, Meldmolle, Brisbane, certainly Perth where their market is
Speaker 1: going nuts right now. So if you're an eight hundred
Speaker 1: thousand dollars twenty eight thousand dollars that you were not
Speaker 1: paying off your home when this bloke was elected the
Speaker 1: Prime minister, that's last year, the year before, and that's
Speaker 1: the track that you were on for this year. That's
Speaker 1: why they can tell me as much as they want
Speaker 1: to that times are changing and we've turned the corner
Speaker 1: and the worst is behind us. The reality is that
Speaker 1: the worst has broken many Australians. It has pushed too
Speaker 1: many Australian families right to the brink. And if you
Speaker 1: think that they don't have a rear vision mirror or
Speaker 1: don't have a long enough memory to remember where they
Speaker 1: were before the bloke who promised to make it better
Speaker 1: took over and made everything worse than you do not
Speaker 1: know the average Australian, which of course would mean you
Speaker 1: are at times a full time person who focuses on
Speaker 1: Australian federal politics. There are some examples, but you know
Speaker 1: what they're going to do when it comes to this
Speaker 1: interest rate drop, which I hope happens. It desperately ape happens.
Speaker 1: But fan fictioning, fan fictioning, if four of them to
Speaker 1: try to make people think that they're going to be
Speaker 1: getting way more than they are, come on slighter hand. Well,
Speaker 1: I know all the tricks, saying them all, so I'll
Speaker 1: call them out every night for you here on Pulmary Life.
Speaker 1: In Question Time today there was a little more relentless
Speaker 1: focus on the government and whether they're going to ever
Speaker 1: fiddle with more things like superannuation tax or negative gearing.
Speaker 1: Why is the pressure on them on negative gearing because
Speaker 1: the Greens want it gone. The Greens, of course, could
Speaker 1: be the ones propping up the federal government after the
Speaker 1: next election due to a minority government, and the Greens
Speaker 1: are asking questions like this and setting their price for support.
Speaker 5: Will Labor stop giving property investors with multiple properties big
Speaker 5: tax handouts, the turbochargehouse prices and deny rents the chance
Speaker 5: to buy a home and instead finally phase out negative
Speaker 5: gearing and the capital gains tax discount.
Speaker 1: So it moved to the same end of the chamber today,
Speaker 1: Whether the alternative Prime Minister asked a question about any
Speaker 1: changes that may well be coming when it comes to
Speaker 1: superannuation or negative gearing. Will the Prime Minister rule out
Speaker 1: any changes to negative gearing and capital gains treatment? But
Speaker 1: during his time as Prime minister, pay attention to every
Speaker 1: word The Prime Minister says.
Speaker 2: They've had a long time to work out questions in
Speaker 2: this place. You know what our housing policy is. A
Speaker 2: housing policy is thirty two billion dollars of a Home
Speaker 2: for Australia plan.
Speaker 1: That's our plan.
Speaker 2: That's our plan.
Speaker 1: Let's do it again. Pay attention to the non answer,
Speaker 1: to the pivot, to the change the subject.
Speaker 2: They've had a long time to work out questions in
Speaker 2: this place. You know what our housing policy is. A
Speaker 2: housing policy is thirty two billion dollars of a home
Speaker 2: for Australia plan.
Speaker 1: That's our plan.
Speaker 2: That's our plan.
Speaker 1: Now, loyal labor people will say no, no, no, no, don't
Speaker 1: miss teper. He says that there'll be no change. That
Speaker 1: is not part of their plan. Any problem is while
Speaker 1: every taxpayer got a tax cut too little, too late.
Speaker 1: We all know what they had said going into the
Speaker 1: last election, which was no plan to change. But of
Speaker 1: course they changed their plan and there was a change.
Speaker 1: They will say a change for the better. But a
Speaker 1: broken promise is a broken promise, is a broken promise? Right,
Speaker 1: and then there was the no changes to superannuation. Oh
Speaker 1: that's right. People with more than three million dollars in
Speaker 1: their superannuation are about to get a brand new tax Yes,
Speaker 1: I get it. Three million in supers an awful lot
Speaker 1: of money. But a promise is a promise is a promise.
Speaker 1: Right before we even get to the two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy five dollars promise. But let's stay focused on this.
Speaker 1: The reality of the federal budget going into the next
Speaker 1: forty years starting this year, is deficits, deficits that get
Speaker 1: worse and worse and worse and worse and worse and
Speaker 1: worse and worse and worse and worse times forty. And
Speaker 1: that is not a right wing think tank. That is
Speaker 1: the reporting of the Treasury, the Intergenerational Report, which was
Speaker 1: released by this treasurer. While federal budget spending goes way up,
Speaker 1: the capacity to pay for it goes way down, and
Speaker 1: the margin in the middle is what we add to
Speaker 1: the trillion dollar pile of debt. Now, of course they
Speaker 1: will say all of these global factors, don't worry about it. Somehow,
Speaker 1: If we just import another ten million people and they
Speaker 1: all pay pay as you go and all of them
Speaker 1: start a small business and some of them pay company tax,
Speaker 1: all of that will just magically disappear. The reality is
Speaker 1: that all of that modeling has already been done by
Speaker 1: the Treasury, and even after all of those assumptions, guess what,
Speaker 1: the distance between how much they're spending versus how much
Speaker 1: they have to pay for it gets bigger and bigger
Speaker 1: each and every year. So forgive me if I do
Speaker 1: not trust a government that, when asked a question as
Speaker 1: clearly as the one Peter Dutton asked, does not answer no,
Speaker 1: hell no, and I will resign rather than make the change.
Speaker 1: Then they are leaving the door open, a door that
Speaker 1: they have said was closed on superannuation, was closed on
Speaker 1: tax cuts. But they found a way to reopen it,
Speaker 1: didn't they. And because much of the media wanting this
Speaker 1: government to be a success. Remember how they first reported
Speaker 1: those two little too late tax cuts, rather than saying
Speaker 1: how much the tax cut would be in your monthly pay,
Speaker 1: which is how often you end up paying your tax
Speaker 1: or fortnightly, or even take it down to weekly pay. No, no,
Speaker 1: they told you the annual number, didn't they, Because it
Speaker 1: was a bigger number, a scarier number to show you,
Speaker 1: or not really scary, an exciting number to show you.
Speaker 1: But just as we picked it. Like the proverbial dirty nose,
Speaker 1: as I'd say too often to the kids, the reality
Speaker 1: is that when they want to spin it, they go up.
Speaker 1: The reality is it goes down. And for the people
Speaker 1: earning forty five thousand dollars was fourteen dollars a week
Speaker 1: too late. And then the pole came out a month
Speaker 1: later saying people didn't notice. And then another pole came
Speaker 1: out like a year later saying seventy percent of people
Speaker 1: couldn't name a single thing the government had done to
Speaker 1: help their financial situation.
Speaker 6: Maybe that's because we don't trust them. Maybe it's because, yes,
Speaker 6: if you gave every single person in Australia one dollar
Speaker 6: and you're added it all together, it's twenty seven million dollars,
Speaker 6: but we all know that a dollar reaching every citizen wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Pay for virtually anything. And an opinion poll backs this
Speaker 1: up that people do not trust where these people may
Speaker 1: go and certainly where they would go if the Greens
Speaker 1: of the tale that's wagging the puppy, as it may
Speaker 1: well be after the next election. A national poll commissioned
Speaker 1: by the Financial Services Council showed forty four percent of
Speaker 1: Australians do not trust the government when it came to
Speaker 1: setting superannuation taxes. This goes up to forty six percent
Speaker 1: when the government's plan for superannuation balances worth more than
Speaker 1: three million dollars were shared with respondents. Ie when they
Speaker 1: were told of the broken promise of the last election.
Speaker 1: Even more people don't trust what they may do at
Speaker 1: the next term in government. More than seventy percent of
Speaker 1: respondents to the poll, which was conducted by Crosby Texter,
Speaker 1: said they believed it was somewhat likely or very likely
Speaker 1: that Labor would introduce further superannuation changes should the party
Speaker 1: be re elected. Seventy percent of people know they can't
Speaker 1: trust them and expect an increase on taxes on the
Speaker 1: money that, by the way, you didn't choose to put
Speaker 1: into superannuation. The government forced you to put into superannuation.
Speaker 1: The theory, of course being that you would be able
Speaker 1: to pay for your own retirement, but the reality being
Speaker 1: that unless you are earning a massive chunk of change,
Speaker 1: then you have not been able to put aside the
Speaker 1: best part of ten percent of your lifetime income and
Speaker 1: it to be able to last as long as your
Speaker 1: body will. Oh and even then, the people who are
Speaker 1: earning a particularly large chunk of change, guess what, The
Speaker 1: law allows those contributions to be capped. So don't automatically think,
Speaker 1: if you're somebody who's in multiple hundred thousand dollars that
Speaker 1: you've got ten percent sitting off to the site. Not
Speaker 1: a problem for many Australians, but interesting about how the
Speaker 1: system works. Meantime, the Greens have their plan as to
Speaker 1: how to pay for everything, and it won't surprise you.
Speaker 1: It's about finding your local billionaire, regardless of whether they
Speaker 1: fund the Teels or they back in the Liberal Party
Speaker 1: or they've got their own political party. Shake a billionaire
Speaker 1: and ten percent of their wealth will result in money
Speaker 1: for everyone. Can I talk about crispow On for a second? Sorry,
Speaker 1: trigger warning, trigger warning. I'm talking about Chris Bowen for
Speaker 1: a second. Now we know that this does Cassanova because
Speaker 1: everything he touches is of course all in non electric vehicles.
Speaker 1: Good luck to him, and I don't hate electric vehicles. Right,
Speaker 1: if you've got one, good luck to you. But I
Speaker 1: don't think the government should be turning around and saying, oh,
Speaker 1: this is the only way we must do our bit
Speaker 1: to cut forty three percent of one percent of the
Speaker 1: world's problem. What's China doing on nothing until two thousand
Speaker 1: and forty wow. But of course in Australia, the cars
Speaker 1: that we want to buy because they're the ones that
Speaker 1: work for our families, they work for ourselves, or you've
Speaker 1: worked hard enough to pay for or you want to
Speaker 1: use them as the thing you get around in when
Speaker 1: it comes to work. Because remember what I spoke about
Speaker 1: over the past couple of nights about small business. Ninety
Speaker 1: seven percent of all businesses in Australia a small business.
Speaker 1: Of those, about seventy percent are sole traders. So there's
Speaker 1: a good chance you might buy a ute like some
Speaker 1: of the top five cars that was sold last year
Speaker 1: here in Australia, big beefy, beautiful cars like the Ford Ranger,
Speaker 1: the Rev four, the high Lux, the Dmax or the Outlander.
Speaker 1: Well all of those. Of course, I'm not electric. So
Speaker 1: the government has introduced a brand new standard, signed off
Speaker 1: on the opposition disgracefully so, but still they changed the
Speaker 1: rules that cars that were high polluting they could still
Speaker 1: be sold in Australia. You just have to pay a
Speaker 1: little compensation, pay a big tax on top of it.
Speaker 1: And Chris Bowen of course was very clear to say, hey,
Speaker 1: settled down, nothing to see here, no problems, that's all
Speaker 1: just stuff they make up on Sky News in prime time.
Speaker 2: Car companies can continue to import any particular.
Speaker 7: Model they wish, they must meet a standard across their
Speaker 7: entire fleet.
Speaker 1: No model will be mandatory, No model will be banged. Well.
Speaker 1: It is with great notes that one of the people
Speaker 1: that I do exempt from my broad rules about the
Speaker 1: canber Press gallery. Philip Curry, writing in the Australian Financial
Speaker 1: Review today, guess what the big car tax is coming?
Speaker 1: Car prices could rise as labor emissions rules hurt manufacturers
Speaker 1: if the manufacturers pass on the full cost of consumers.
Speaker 1: The Motor Traders Association forecasts the penalty per vehicle by
Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine will be an extra four and a
Speaker 1: half thousand dollars Fermini Zuzu, four thousand dollars for a Mazda,
Speaker 1: three thousand dollars for a Toyota. The penalty per car
Speaker 1: is much steeper for the larger and luxury vehicles. So
Speaker 1: if you're somebody who wants to drive around in one
Speaker 1: of those boats otherwise known as rams, I'd love to
Speaker 1: one day. Can someone just lend me one for like
Speaker 1: two days? Two days? I want to talk about it
Speaker 1: on television. It's not cash for comment. I just really
Speaker 1: want to drive around in one nine thousand dollars. Obviously
Speaker 1: I'm not talking to anyone watching this show, but Bentley's
Speaker 1: will be about eight grand and it'll be another seven
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for the Lambeau. Should you wing lotto at
Speaker 1: any point in time, if you have a look here
Speaker 1: by car maker, you're able to have a look at
Speaker 1: the top ten extra amounts of money that will be
Speaker 1: dropped on top of those particular car brands or but
Speaker 1: you'll be able to drive whatever you want. Nobody's going
Speaker 1: to be taxed apart from the fact that they're going
Speaker 1: to be taxed, and therefore the manufacturer is because of
Speaker 1: the cost of them, will not import them, meaning oh,
Speaker 1: we didn't ban them, they chose to remove them. They
Speaker 1: think you're that stupid Jedi mind trick. Everything's okay. One
Speaker 1: other thing I want to talk about with Parliament at
Speaker 1: the moment, and whether this is the final sitting week
Speaker 1: or maybe we wait again and there's another way. I
Speaker 1: don't know right, but we're close to the we're close
Speaker 1: to the election, and that means that we have got
Speaker 1: an awful lot of dirty deals being done behind the
Speaker 1: scenes about the way our electoral system works.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 1: Not enough people pay attention to this, and this should
Speaker 1: be a much bigger story than it is. But the
Speaker 1: major parties are probably going to get together work out
Speaker 1: a new system that means, okay, we'll have to tell
Speaker 1: everyone our donations, but we'll get more money back from
Speaker 1: the taxpayer for each and every vote that we get. Amazingly,
Speaker 1: this system will not come into effect at the election
Speaker 1: we are about to have, but I know the election
Speaker 1: after that because you see both sides of Parliament, but
Speaker 1: most likely the Labor Party is going to need the
Speaker 1: votes of the Greens or the Teals, so they don't
Speaker 1: want to put these rules in place about how much
Speaker 1: they can spend and all of those sorts of caps
Speaker 1: at this election because we might need their vote after
Speaker 1: the election. Well, deals are being done as we speak.
Speaker 1: The Turnbull times like a broken clock. We'll get a
Speaker 1: couple of things right each day, and this is their
Speaker 1: reporting on it. Under the proposal, each electorate, an independent
Speaker 1: candidate would have a cap of eight hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: So you can spend eight hundred thousand dollars as a
Speaker 1: so called independent candidate. That's a lot of money if
Speaker 1: you are running a seat by seat. It's not a
Speaker 1: lot of money if you're trying to run across the
Speaker 1: whole state as a senator or the territory. While a
Speaker 1: federal political party will have a campaign cap across the
Speaker 1: entire country of ninety million dollars. Oh, how lovely ninety
Speaker 1: million dollars. There would be separate caps for each state
Speaker 1: and territory based on size. So ironically, the person who
Speaker 1: would have the highest cap because of the lowest population
Speaker 1: would be the Australian Capital Territory. And that's right door,
Speaker 1: Matt Dave Percock, whose vote would definitely been edded in
Speaker 1: the Senate regardless of who ends up winning election. But
Speaker 1: you know, nothing to see here, nothing to see here.
Speaker 1: The bill in its current form would also cap individual
Speaker 1: donations or gifts to twenty thousand dollars and increase public
Speaker 1: funding to parties houses every vote in the country. So remember,
Speaker 1: if you vote, say a Liberal, you vote one in
Speaker 1: the Lower House, one in the upper House. Five bucks
Speaker 1: for each vote ten dollars per person if they vote
Speaker 1: for the same team in the lower and upper House.
Speaker 1: Do your sums on that amount of money on the
Speaker 1: number of people that are on the electoral role, and
Speaker 1: you will be paying for the politics of the people
Speaker 1: who then rule you. Like the kings and queens they
Speaker 1: think they are as they give themselves pay rises three
Speaker 1: of them in this term alone and their staffers the
Speaker 1: biggest pay rise in ten years. Update. The government is
Speaker 1: now trying to win the coalition support to push through
Speaker 1: the laws this week so the donation cap could go
Speaker 1: from twenty thousand up to forty thousand, and rather than
Speaker 1: having to tell us who gives to a political party
Speaker 1: if it's one thousand dollars, that will now move to
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars. Watch this space because if they can
Speaker 1: work out a pretty little deal that will firstly help
Speaker 1: the major parties and secondly make us pay more to
Speaker 1: the political parties, who, of course are able to put
Speaker 1: themselves into deep debt during an election because they know
Speaker 1: the chunk of change that's coming from Ask the idiot
Speaker 1: taxpayer for them to turn around. They are unbelievable, right,
Speaker 1: they are unbelievable, but they find new ways each at
Speaker 1: every day. Pay attention for those who don't approve those
Speaker 1: who fight. And that's probably where you should start thinking
Speaker 1: in the conversation between now and election day. Now you
Speaker 1: see to Allen, the awful Premier of Victoria. There we go,
Speaker 1: the awful Premier of Victoria. She's in a world of
Speaker 1: trouble after that by election, and one of The reasons
Speaker 1: why people in the suburbs of Melbourne can't stand this government,
Speaker 1: but many people in the suburbs of every capital city
Speaker 1: can't stand their governments, is because of more people coming
Speaker 1: into the country thanks federal government, and more people sitting
Speaker 1: in the back of an ambulance. Ambulance ramping happens when
Speaker 1: you call Triple O, they pick you up, but there's
Speaker 1: no bed in the hospital, so you sit in the
Speaker 1: back of the ambulance because there's no bed in the hospital. Unbelievable.
Speaker 1: Ambulance ramping leaves Victoria's regions without paw paramedics and one
Speaker 1: in three Victorian ambulances, according to their old sun today,
Speaker 1: is failing to turn up when somebody calls Triple O
Speaker 1: within fifteen minutes. From October to December, paramedics responded to
Speaker 1: just sixty four point nine percent of critical Code one
Speaker 1: cases I'm about to die within the statewide target of
Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. It's worse than the previous months of July,
Speaker 1: August and September that was sixty five and a bit percent.
Speaker 1: So an idea has come forward today and it is
Speaker 1: as ridiculous as it sounds from the Victorian government who
Speaker 1: is just going to find a way not to make
Speaker 1: sure that when you call TRIPLEO an ambulance turns up.
Speaker 1: They're now I'm just going to create a scenario where
Speaker 1: the paramedic will be treating not just you, but other
Speaker 1: people in other ambulances. Think of this as sort of
Speaker 1: ride sharing, but not in the car pooling ambulance pulling
Speaker 1: X will be asked to treat multiple patients and emergency
Speaker 1: departments more often in order to free up other ramped ambulances.
Speaker 1: I'll take care of these two. You go off pick
Speaker 1: somebody up. What a wonderful idea is the idiot health minister.
Speaker 7: Pushing Today, I am announcing the launch of the Standards
Speaker 7: for Safe and Timely Ambulance and Emergency Care for Victorians.
Speaker 7: The standards will improve patient flow, they will reduce pressure
Speaker 7: in our emergency departments, and they will support the faster
Speaker 7: transfer and clearance from a AV at a hospital. So
Speaker 7: they will support Ambulance Victoria to transfer patients more quickly
Speaker 7: to the health service and then get crews back on
Speaker 7: the road more quickly.
Speaker 1: The problem isn't the ambulance the promise. The problem is
Speaker 1: the number of beds in the hospital. Nice try nice
Speaker 1: try quick break back with more. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 1: the Donald Trump tariff thing, we're going to get an exemption.
Speaker 1: That aren't kicking it until March. See, don't have to
Speaker 1: waste that much time on it. More on a sec
Speaker 1: Paul and Hanson than Nigel Farage. No salks, no lefties,
Speaker 1: just the way you like. Juicy little reporting. By the way,
Speaker 1: that's just popped up on the Australians website. For the
Speaker 1: past two nights, the Prime Minister has invited the Teals
Speaker 1: for drinks at the Lodge g So I wonder what
Speaker 1: they're talking about about the price of their support after
Speaker 1: the next election. We'll all find out in a few
Speaker 1: months time. We are having our first pub test of
Speaker 1: this federal election. We're waiting for the Prime Minister call one.
Speaker 1: We know one's on. So we are going to be
Speaker 1: in the seat of Gilmore on the south coast of
Speaker 1: New South Wales. This is of course in and around
Speaker 1: Bateman's Bay. We have got invitations out to all of
Speaker 1: the candidates. It is up to them as to whether
Speaker 1: they will be there or not. If there's some mystery
Speaker 1: independent I'm not aware of my apologies, but of the
Speaker 1: people we know that are running. We have made invitations too,
Speaker 1: all of the candidates if you've got questions for them,
Speaker 1: one of the most marginal seats in the country, and
Speaker 1: you'd like to be there Monday, not this Monday, coming
Speaker 1: Monday after that, the twenty fourth pub Test. It's gone
Speaker 1: news dot com. That are you pub Test, It's gonews
Speaker 1: dot com dot are you? Pauline Hanson, she's seen it
Speaker 1: all and I'm sure would have absolutely nothing to say
Speaker 1: to the Prime Minister if she had it up in
Speaker 1: the same room at the lodge with the Tiffany Teals
Speaker 1: and their little moment that's happening right now, because she's
Speaker 1: too busy fighting for the good people at Queensland, who
Speaker 1: she represents in Australia, of whom she loves. Pauline, it's
Speaker 1: been way too long. I know that sometimes our show's
Speaker 1: a little late, but it's good to have the chat
Speaker 1: and thank you so much for joining us tonight, My dear, Sorry,
Speaker 1: paul it's not you. I listen. I don't even stay
Speaker 1: up for years.
Speaker 3: Years even it's definitely not you.
Speaker 1: It's me, good, good, good, good good. I know it's
Speaker 1: never personally want to be back with you, Paul.
Speaker 3: I've been here.
Speaker 1: Lovely to see you. Now you know how much we
Speaker 1: support third parties, but we also support what you have
Speaker 1: brought to Australian politics. Now. I love that you are
Speaker 1: putting big, bloody ideas on the table going into the election. Okay,
Speaker 1: that rather than people sort of second guessing or thinking
Speaker 1: or remembering from a couple of elections ago. So let's
Speaker 1: go through a couple of them. And I wanted people
Speaker 1: to see to hear what you had to say about
Speaker 1: them from your own words. I love the idea that
Speaker 1: if a husband and wife, wife and husband, one is
Speaker 1: at home, one is not. One is paying full tax
Speaker 1: on their wage. No, no, you get to spread it
Speaker 1: across the couple, the family. This would save people a
Speaker 1: shed load of money. What do you think, Pauline, What
Speaker 1: brought you to this one?
Speaker 3: Paul We've got to cut tax for general populace out there,
Speaker 3: and the only way to do it is to look
Speaker 3: after the family unit. We haven't been looking after the
Speaker 3: family unit. Both couples have to both people in a
Speaker 3: relationship have to go to work, and especially if they've
Speaker 3: got children. Everyone's suffering with it. Family units breaking down
Speaker 3: domestic violence, stress that it is happening through finances and
Speaker 3: all the rest of it. We can keep one of
Speaker 3: the partners home and I'm saying just the female. The
Speaker 3: male want to stay home and the other part of
Speaker 3: be the breadwinner. Let's spit their income and pay tax
Speaker 3: on that. If there are only one hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: thousand years, but between the two of them, you're going
Speaker 3: to save about nearly ten thousand dollars a year. It
Speaker 3: will help with the children having one parent home. It's
Speaker 3: a lot of pluses with that. It will alleviate the
Speaker 3: pressure on the childcare that we're paying in taxes to childcare,
Speaker 3: which is now fifteen boollion a year, which they want
Speaker 3: to increase in more. And you're also if you've got
Speaker 3: a child sick, you don't send them to school, so
Speaker 3: therefore the health issues as well. So there's a lot
Speaker 3: of pluses with it. Paul, I want to help the
Speaker 3: family unit.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean having somebody in austrating politics talking about
Speaker 1: that and the family unit. Lots of variations, all the
Speaker 1: rest of it. Right, it is pretty obvious how this works. Again,
Speaker 1: I want people to go to the website find out
Speaker 1: more about all of this stuff. But also let's talk
Speaker 1: about immigration, because the reality is that if you add
Speaker 1: one point three million people to the country, as they
Speaker 1: have over the past few years, you make everything worse,
Speaker 1: everything from hospital ramping all the way through to rental
Speaker 1: properties and the rest of it. Here, what's your plan?
Speaker 1: What do you want to happen with the number of
Speaker 1: people who are will come in in the next few years.
Speaker 3: Last year we had seven hundred thousand people come in,
Speaker 3: reduced by five hundred and seventy thousand down to one
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty thousand until we can manage their migration
Speaker 3: coming into the country, so cut that to one hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty thousand a year. I want to deport their
Speaker 3: seventy five thousand overstays on visa holders in Australia. Deport
Speaker 3: those seventy five thousand, get rid of them out of
Speaker 3: the country. And foreign students also, why are we allowing
Speaker 3: them in the country to actually take up our housing
Speaker 3: when a lot of them only do about six hours
Speaker 3: a week. Foreign students export about ten billion dollars in
Speaker 3: earnings back to their own countries, that is China, India,
Speaker 3: the UK and the Philippines are only coming out here
Speaker 3: to work. They use it as a backdoor into our country. Also,
Speaker 3: I want to see temporary protection visus introduced again, and
Speaker 3: do not bring in people who are coming from those
Speaker 3: terrorist countries or with fundamentalist ideology that's incompatible with our
Speaker 3: culture and way of life.
Speaker 1: Fantastic, fantastic. I mean this is the stuff people want
Speaker 1: to hear, right, They want to hear it because they
Speaker 1: are living with the consequences of being told that anything else,
Speaker 1: anything else other than big Australia is somehow backward. No no, no,
Speaker 1: we want the best Australia. We want the best.
Speaker 3: Astray Well, we have to pull because they flooded the
Speaker 3: country only to prop up the GDP and immigration is
Speaker 3: a Ponzi scheme, so it's not helping the people here.
Speaker 1: I'll ask the people.
Speaker 3: Is your way of life any better now than what
Speaker 3: it was, say four or five years ago? You know,
Speaker 3: are you able to Have you got cheaper red have
Speaker 3: you got cheaper electricity? All this is due to government policies.
Speaker 3: Think twice, who you vote for and why for them?
Speaker 3: Look at the policies and I'll tell you while I'm
Speaker 3: on this, Paul, I tell people about this climate change,
Speaker 3: the fear mongering that's gone on people are, so they're
Speaker 3: not looking at the science behind all this. And I'll
Speaker 3: warn you you will die first of lack of hostile
Speaker 3: care medications, having those operations that you need, cancer treatment, everything,
Speaker 3: before you'll die from climate change in this country. So
Speaker 3: wake up a strange you've been taking us fools and
Speaker 3: your mugs for going along with it, because this government
Speaker 3: is destroying the prosperity and you'll standard living your way
Speaker 3: of life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's be pre empty the complaints from the Greens.
Speaker 1: Of course, they will say that natural disasters linked to
Speaker 1: climate change, the intensity of which so if people die
Speaker 1: in those that would be the scenario. But people know
Speaker 1: what you're saying. You just know that I can't be
Speaker 1: bothered with the meeting tomorrow. So let me put their
Speaker 1: position now, all right, last one here, let's talk about
Speaker 1: GST and about how GST could be. It could be
Speaker 1: changed for the better, particularly when it comes to people
Speaker 1: trying to build something or renovate their own home.
Speaker 3: When you're building your house, it's up to about forty
Speaker 3: four percent of it is in taxis, whether it's stamp duty,
Speaker 3: your GST. What we're advocating is to get rid of
Speaker 3: stamp duty. Sorry to get rid of GST on building materials,
Speaker 3: so therefore it will save people since COVID. Your timber
Speaker 3: of costs have gone up by two hundred percent. You
Speaker 3: not that we input five billion dollars worth of timber
Speaker 3: into the country every year. And also plumbing and electrical
Speaker 3: costs in a building site have gone up one hundred
Speaker 3: percent in materials since COVID. So this is killing these
Speaker 3: strained people. Let's take the gs to GST of building materials.
Speaker 1: Give them a relief.
Speaker 3: Do it up to five years so that we can
Speaker 3: help those are strainers out there to get into their
Speaker 3: own homes.
Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about the election and some of the
Speaker 1: stuff that's happening in the Parliament this week. Hard again
Speaker 1: for normal people to follow about. You know, when the
Speaker 1: big two are going to get together and work out
Speaker 1: the donation's cap and the spending cap and all the
Speaker 1: rest of it. The detail that is flowing around right now,
Speaker 1: does it help or hurt a person like yourself and
Speaker 1: a party that's wanting to run in every state as
Speaker 1: opposed to sort of the doormat Dave who looks like
Speaker 1: the cap will be higher if the population is lower.
Speaker 3: Paul, I think this is a snatch and grab by
Speaker 3: both sides politics, the Coalition and the government, because I
Speaker 3: think what they're saying here is they want to pay
Speaker 3: themselves for every sitting member of parliament in the lower
Speaker 3: House thirty thousand dollars a year compliance cost plus also
Speaker 3: in the Senate fifteen thousand dollars per setting member. Now
Speaker 3: that's going to quate to about the Labor Party picking
Speaker 3: up two point seven million dollars. On top of this,
Speaker 3: they're raising the per vote by five dollars per primary vote.
Speaker 3: The number one vote is going to give everyone five
Speaker 3: dollars per vote. On top of this, they get the
Speaker 3: donation switch, they say cutting back. I don't trust them
Speaker 3: because you know what, through the back door the unions
Speaker 3: can donate moneys to them. They reckon the rain and
Speaker 3: den So I got a lot of problems with this,
Speaker 3: but it's been backed by the major political parties. They're
Speaker 3: going to pass this on the floor of Parliament. So
Speaker 3: this compliance costs Paul. They changed the rules for a
Speaker 3: lot of the farmer's businesses and people out there who
Speaker 3: had to comply with their rules and regulations. Do they
Speaker 3: get compliance costs paid for?
Speaker 1: The buyo?
Speaker 3: The government to set up their tax agents or accountants
Speaker 3: or the rest of No, they didn't, So why are
Speaker 3: we paying allowing the political parties to pay themselves compliance
Speaker 3: costs for their members of Parliament.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hundred percent. By the way, eighty nine million dollars
Speaker 1: is how much the total amount of money the AEC
Speaker 1: will take after an election. Eighty nine million. And that's
Speaker 1: just in the lower House let alone. Of course, the
Speaker 1: doubling of that about what's going to happen up in
Speaker 1: the center, it is offensive, It is absolutely offensive. Well,
Speaker 1: but the stitch up is going to happen here.
Speaker 3: They paid out over about seventy two million and the
Speaker 3: last election, after this legislation goes through, it's going to
Speaker 3: cost the taxpayers about one hundred and forty million.
Speaker 1: Righteous It truly is all right man, good to hear
Speaker 1: from you. We'll see you again many times between now
Speaker 1: and the election. I want people to talk about policy.
Speaker 1: I want people to talk about big ideas, and I
Speaker 1: want people to double check the One Nation website for
Speaker 1: more detail about all of that. I'll try and deal
Speaker 1: it with as many parties as possible between now and
Speaker 1: the election. Quick break back with more. Nigel Farage, the
Speaker 1: next Prime Minister of the UK. He joins us next
Speaker 1: Nigel Faraj in the moment or two is time from London.
Speaker 1: But first, local councils. I mean, I try, I really
Speaker 1: try to give the benefit of the doubt to the
Speaker 1: people who represent local communities, right and certainly when we
Speaker 1: go and do our town. We talk to an awful
Speaker 1: lot of mayors around the country, right, but the ones
Speaker 1: in some of the cities at the moment, and what
Speaker 1: they're doing with rates is disgraceful. But they know that
Speaker 1: there's not a council election for another four years, so
Speaker 1: they're just going to punch on with them now. As
Speaker 1: you know, people have been protesting these things because there's
Speaker 1: a high here and there's a hike there, and some
Speaker 1: of these are unbelievable. North Sydney Council you might have
Speaker 1: heard about this, but how's this They have decided to
Speaker 1: up their rates by eighty seven percent. Eighty seven percent. Now,
Speaker 1: I know there's lots of rich houses in and around
Speaker 1: that area, but Jesus, an awful lot of people in
Speaker 1: one bedroom two bedroom units and the people who are
Speaker 1: in those, how are they going to pay an extra
Speaker 1: eighty seven percent on top of what already are very
Speaker 1: high rates. Well some of them are blowing up and
Speaker 1: they had a camera close enough to pick up what
Speaker 1: they were saying.
Speaker 6: According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, North Sydney's ranks
Speaker 6: is the fifth.
Speaker 3: Most advantaged local government area in the country.
Speaker 6: What we look like to the rest of New South
Speaker 6: Wales and Australia with the dune areas coping with floods, well,
Speaker 6: we failed to fund our basic finance.
Speaker 1: Good on them and well done as well. A real
Speaker 1: estate dot com that are you who was working out
Speaker 1: today that if you increase the rates on people who
Speaker 1: own property, the people who own investment properties will either
Speaker 1: pass that on as increase rent or maybe sell the thing,
Speaker 1: meaning there is one less place to rent in all
Speaker 1: of those things. And what does that add to the
Speaker 1: rental cues that already, as I have told you, zero
Speaker 1: point seven percent of all of the homes in all
Speaker 1: of Australia granny flats to that one hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: dollars mansion that will sold off in two rac a
Speaker 1: few days ago, zero point seven are currently available for rent.
Speaker 1: They've got a four lease sign out the front and
Speaker 1: they're looking for people there are way more than that
Speaker 1: in terms of the number of people that are trying
Speaker 1: to go for rental places at the moment. So I've
Speaker 1: got an idea which is that at some point in time,
Speaker 1: the state government, particularly in New South Wales, it should
Speaker 1: start to turn around and say, oh, if you keep
Speaker 1: doing this, we will use our power to sack you
Speaker 1: as the local government. And while the idea of democratically
Speaker 1: elected people being replaced with some bureaucrawt who probably is
Speaker 1: going to be worse for the local area because they
Speaker 1: turn around and say competing, No, if part of the
Speaker 1: remit of that person is to cut the money that
Speaker 1: the council spends to try to avoid the increase in
Speaker 1: council rates, then I think people will be for it.
Speaker 1: And as always I always try to have a look
Speaker 1: at whatever the council is that's in the news, have
Speaker 1: a look on their website, and have a look at
Speaker 1: the the job vacancies, and just let's see how much
Speaker 1: the council that is so low on funds that needs
Speaker 1: to increase, in this case the rates on the ratepayers
Speaker 1: eighty seven percent, how much do they pay people for
Speaker 1: the jobs they do for counsel well on the North
Speaker 1: Sydney Council website right now, these are the list of
Speaker 1: the positions vacant. Some of them make sense, some of
Speaker 1: them don't. But a wahchs manner. This is the Health
Speaker 1: and Safety manager. He's paid one hundred and twenty eight
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. One hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars. They'll
Speaker 1: also throw in one thousand dollars a year to help
Speaker 1: pay your tolls just in case you happen to live
Speaker 1: on the other side of the bridge. A payroll officer
Speaker 1: at the North Sydney Council is paid seventy three thousand
Speaker 1: dollars and wait for this, wait for this. Parking officers.
Speaker 1: The salary range for a parking officer goes as high
Speaker 1: as seventy nine and a half thousand dollars. They are
Speaker 1: paying parking offices more than one thousand dollars a week.
Speaker 1: Plus you get special shift allowances, which means overall, if
Speaker 1: you get the shift allowance, it'll be eighty five thousand
Speaker 1: dollars a year for you to be a parking cop.
Speaker 1: A sorry ranger. Parking cop in North Sydney Council unbelievable
Speaker 1: by the way, they only have to work thirty eight
Speaker 1: hours a week and they've got a rotating roster. Now,
Speaker 1: I get it. You can't pay everyone who works for
Speaker 1: councils in five hundred bucks a week. I understand that
Speaker 1: they are living, possibly in those particular municipalities, those shires
Speaker 1: and all the rest of it, But we have lost
Speaker 1: the plot. When the government pays almost more than the
Speaker 1: private sector, it's annoying and it happens all the way
Speaker 1: around the world. Niger Ferras. Finally we've got the tin
Speaker 1: cansta work, he joins us. Now from the UK, Nigel,
Speaker 1: no stranger to the way things work of course in
Speaker 1: the UK right now, where government ends up spending way
Speaker 1: more money on things that people don't truly need. But
Speaker 1: let's talk about your version of local councils and some
Speaker 1: of the elections that have gone up in smoke. What's happening.
Speaker 1: I thought it was a democratic country, excited to vote.
Speaker 8: Yeah, we had twenty million people who were due to
Speaker 8: vote on the first and that's for the old English
Speaker 8: county council, so not the big cities, not Wales, not Scotland.
Speaker 8: The government want to reorganize local councils and they offered
Speaker 8: counsels the chance to cancel the elections, to postpone them,
Speaker 8: and guess what, the ones that are held with the Conservatives,
Speaker 8: where reform is doing the best, have said, please, sir,
Speaker 8: can we cancel our elections? And five and a half
Speaker 8: million people have been denied the vote. There's considerable anger
Speaker 8: over this, and we now believe the elections could be
Speaker 8: canceled for up to two years. I've never known anything
Speaker 8: like it in all my life. It's as if the
Speaker 8: Labor and Conservative parties have colluded to try and stop
Speaker 8: the advance of reform. So yeah, as you can tell,
Speaker 8: I'm pretty annoyed.
Speaker 1: As you should. You've also got two hundred thousand members
Speaker 1: for the party the parling last week showing that you
Speaker 1: guys are in front. Are you starting to even dream
Speaker 1: at there being the Prime Minister of the UK?
Speaker 8: The ladiest things out this morning three hours ago put
Speaker 8: us first again and that's with you, GOV, who are
Speaker 8: considered to be the gold standard. Interestingly, not just a
Speaker 8: head of Labor, but five points now clear of the Conservatives.
Speaker 8: And I think if Conservatives realize that we now really
Speaker 8: are the challenger to this terrible labor government, then a
Speaker 8: lot more of them might come.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know. I would put it.
Speaker 8: I would put it thirty five to forty five percent
Speaker 8: that we can win an exelection, and that number is
Speaker 8: going up every week.
Speaker 1: It is big. It is big. Thank you, Matt. I
Speaker 1: do appreciate it. Sorry about the tin cans. We'll talk
Speaker 1: properly next week. You're a busy man, and I appreciate
Speaker 1: how much time you have for us each and every week.
Speaker 1: All right, that's our show for tonight. We'll see you
Speaker 1: again tomorrow when Megan Killy's our guests from the United
Speaker 1: States